Heart Protection

Chapter 14

The tremors in the cave increased in intensity.

Tian Yao looked at Yan Hui with a frozen look. His voice was bitingly cold: "That's called being stupid."

After seeing Tian Yao's face every day, Yan Hui could tell by his expression that she successfully ruined his plan.

Yan Hui smirked. She didn't waste any time and secretly performed some hand gestures to release a spell.

Although she only regained a small portion of her cultivation, it should be more than enough to perform an Escape Technique.

Yan Hui laughed cockily and waved at Tian Yao: "This girl isn't going play with you anymore. You can just die here."

Tian Yao didn't say anything. He just steadily looked at her. He let the rocks from the cave walls fall and shatter between them, and he let Yan Hui show off with her amusing, cocky attitude. Tian Yao just quietly stood in the deep cave.......

They stood there for a long time.

Tian Yao didn't say a word. Yan Hui also didn't say a word. The cave was silent for a long time......

It wasn't until a rock hit Yan Hui's head that she was hit back to her senses. She cried out in shock: "Why can't I escape!?"

Seeing Yan Hui like this, Tian Yao cheered up a little from his terrible mood.

He clasped his hands together. His disdainful eyes revealed his delight at Yan Hui's misfortune: "The array isn't broken. Even if you've recovered your magic, what's the use?" At the end, his tone changed. For someone whose tone was normally flat and expressionless, this was probably his most scornful. "Chen Xing Mountain's lectures taught you nothing."

Hearing Tian Yao mock her, Yan Hui clenched her teeth to the point grinding sounds were heard.

She was still waiting for a comeback to escape her mouth when the cave suddenly shook. The ground was like a piece of cloth being scrubbed, flipping and turning.

Yan Hui couldn't stand steadily at all. She reached out and clung at the cave walls, planning to stay there until the earthquake passed. As she was thinking that, Tian Yao suddenly moved like his life depended on it. Not caring how much the ground shook, he grabbed the jian that Yan Hui broke and charged toward her.

In her fear, Yan Hui thrusted a hand out to block.

"You can't seriously be thinking of trying to stab me again!" Yan Hui raged. "Look at the current situation! Can you not stop?!"

"If it wasn't for you messing things up, I would've stopped long ago." Tian Yao coldly said those words and reached out a hand to wrap around Yan Hui's neck. Yan Hui wouldn't let him choke her so easily. With one hand still clutching the cave wall, she kicked at Tian Yao's vital area.

Tian Yao blanched and hurriedly avoided it.

Yan Hui laughed: "Hah, so a millennium demon is scared of this move too."

"Shameless!" Tian Yao was so angered by Yan Hui's uncouth behaviour that he couldn't think of anything else to say. He used his anger to fuel his next moves. With two rapid and vicious motions, he restrained her once again.

This time, he pressed Yan Hui directly against the wall, right where the spell was carved. He raised the broken jian and stabbed toward her chest.

At that moment, Yan Hui once again saw that strange scene in her mind: an enormous moon, blindingly white snow, and the figure of a person holding a jian......

Yet she wasn't the person laying on the ground in the scene! Why did she have to obediently be stabbed?!

To whom did she owe?!

Yan Hui believed that aside from Ling Xiao, whom she owed her life, she didn't owe anyone else.

Thus at this moment of life or death, Yan Hui suddenly lowered herself. The broken jian grazed past her shoulder, ripping her clothes. It embedded itself into the stone wall behind her with a "clank".

Yan Hui listened to that sound with unease. If she had been lost in her thoughts for a second longer, that jian would've pierced her heart for a second time!

This millennium dragon demon really killed people without any hesitation!

"Don't move!" Because the jian didn't pierce its target, Tian Yao grew frustrated.

Yan Hui was so mad that she burst out in laughter: "When you slaughter chickens, you let them try to struggle free two times. Am I not even equal to an animal?!" Saying that, she added some more: "When I killed your family's chickens, you gave me a grimace. Now that you're killing me, you won't give me a chance to struggle two times!"

Tian Yao tightly furrowed his eyebrows: "I told you I don't want your life. I just need your heart!"

"Hahahahahaha!" Yan Hui threw her head back in laughter after hearing this. "Just now I just wanted to kick you in the crotch. I didn't want your life. Why didn't you let me kick?!"

Tian Yao pulled his mouth tight: "I shouldn't have wasted words on you."

"You say that like people want to talk to you......"

She hadn't finished talking when the ground under their feet seemed to suddenly flip over. Yan Hui felt like the earth was spinning. Tian Yao's expression became even more grave: "There's no more time. Use your heart's blood to break the spell."

"If heart's blood breaks the spell, then stab yourself! I'm not stopping you!"

As expected, Tian Yao didn't waste any more words. While the cave was shaking and in turmoil, he started to attack Yan Hui. To protect her own life, Yan Hui fought back with all her strength.

It was during this that Yan Hui realized - Tian Yao's style of martial arts wasn't slightly better than hers; it surpassed hers by a lot. If it wasn't for the small amount of magic she regained enabling her to evade, she would've been crushed under him early on.

The cave completely flipped over.

The top of the cave was now under their feet. The spell Tian Yao carved into the wall unexpectedly started to disappear.

It was like the cave was alive and quietly erasing the mark Tian Yao left on its walls.

Upon seeing this, Tian Yao's expression became solemn. Seeing that Yan Hui was still dodging, he coldly looked at her and said: "I'm getting the object I desired to help Zhenren Qi Yun regain her mind. Could it be that you do not want to clear Ling Xiao's name anymore?"

When he finished, Yan Hui paused as expected.

Tian Yao's figure flashed, and he ruthlessly skewered Yan Hui through her chest. This time, he didn't pierce completely through her heart. The broken jian was half its length now, but blood from Yan Hui's heart was already dripping onto the ground.

Yan Hui clenched her teeth in pain. Blood trickled out of her mouth. She hatefully glared at Tian Yao: "Two times......."

Yet Tian Yao acted as if he didn't hear her words. And he didn't care how much pain Yan Hui was in when he rapidly pulled the jian out of her.

While Yan Hui groaned, Tian Yao whirled around. Only a "clank" was heard. The broken jian was stabbed into the stone wall!

His strength was so great that when the edge of the jian met the stone, sparks were created.

Yan Hui's blood dripped onto the stone wall and flowed within the cracks. Tian Yao's hands formed a seal while he chanted a secret spell. The stone wall lit up with a dazzling light.

The ground that had just settled down started to violently tremble again.

The tremors this time around were different from before. This time, Yan Hui heard the sound of enormous rocks collapsing within the depths of the cave. Soon afterwards, dust started to billow out from that area. A large crack formed in the stone ceiling. Cracks seemed to lead to the outside of the cave because even the dizzy Yan Hui could feel air from the outside flowing through them.

A large chunk of stone fell in front of Yan Hui. The air it stirred up even blew her hair into disarray.

She could tell the cave was about to collapse......

Tian Yao, who was off to the side, steadily stood in place. He didn't move at all and let the rocks fall onto his body.

 If she let him chant any further, she would be buried alive!

Without giving Yan Hui more time to think about this, the floor of the cave started to tilt. It slowly inclined until it was practically vertical. Yan Hui used one hand to staunch the flow of blood from her heart while the other was occupied with grabbing onto rocks around her to prevent herself from tumbling down.

However, the rocks near Yan Hui that were protruding out started to fall, one after another. She grabbed one, then that one fell. It made her movements frantic and comical. Because the floor was tilted, Tian Yao stood above Yan Hui.

It was unknown what power he was drawing from. His entire body emitted the same blood-red light as the stone walls. Practically floating in the air with loose black hair spread around, there was a sense of superiority.

He was actually standing there with dignity and grace! Yan Hui filled with anger. Although she had suffered many indignities at Chen Xing Mountain, it was never as bad as this.

And now, the floor was tilting even more. It was about to be vertical. Yan Hui looked down at a bottomless black abyss. She gritted her teeth and stopped caring about the blood trickling from her heart. With both legs, she kicked against the wall and leapt up. Her hand were extended out, and they......

Tightly held onto Tian Yao's thigh.

Tian Yao, who had been steadily standing there, suddenly started to drop.

He immediately opened his eyes. He saw Yan Hui, blood tricking out of her mouth, teeth clenched, climbing up his leg. Even though he had experienced many situations in his life, this scene still gave Tian Yao quite the shock.

"What are you doing?!" He bent a knee, planning to kick Yan Hui off.

"Can't you tell? I'm trying to live!"

His two legs were being clutched which made Tian Yao feel extremely out of sorts. His eyebrows forcefully knitted together: "What about your magic? Can't you fly?!"

"Let me stab you two times. Let's see if you can still fly!" Yan Hui thought this demon was extremely shameless. He planned and carried out his betrayal so well, yet when someone gets caught in a predicament, he was so stingy he wasn't willing to help even a little bit. This really.......Yan Hui tilted her head up in a rage: "If you say anymore useless words, I'm going to grab your little brother and hang from there!"

"You......." Tian Yao's throat was choked up by those words. He was choked for a long time before his face blushed a deep red. He criticised: "Sh......shameless!"

"You're no better! You're also despicable to the point of shamelessness!"

Yan Hui hadn't finished speaking when a rock above them tumbled down. Tian Yao rapidly ducked to the side. He clung to the stone wall. His face started to reveal some strain.

"Let go."

"No."

"The Array Break Technique still isn't completed."

"Then you think of a wa......." Yan Huistarted speaking when another large rock suddenly fell from above. There was no time for Tian Yao to dodge. The large rock struck them, pushing them down.

The light around Tian Yao's body immediately dissipated after he left the blood-enriched spell. He no longer had the power to suspend their weight in midair.

Yan Hui began to fall rapidly. However, no matter how fast she was falling, she didn't forget to hold onto Tian Yao.

If she was going to die, she was going to drag this demon down with her.

"Splash", water droplets flew everywhere. Yan Hui fell into an extremely icy and frigid pool. Bubbles from her body rushed up to the surface.

Yan Hui didn't like soaking in water. She immediately pushed away Tian Yao and started to swim up. When her head broke the surface, she dazedly saw that there was a shore and put all her strength into swimming toward it.

After a long, torturous time, she finally reached the shore. She knelt there, hands braced against the earth. She coughed for a long time before flopping over. She laid there soaking wet and stared at the icy ceiling, losing an unknown amount of time.

She could still live like this.

Her will to live was unexpectedly strong.

Yan Hui covered her wound. Icy water seeped into it and made it extremely uncomfortable. Her palm emitted heat, and she started to slowly warm up her wound. She waited until her heart felt warmth before starting to properly care for her injury.

She nursed it for a while. Her body slowly recovered its strength, and she sat up.

She looked left and right.

 She finally noticed what was different------.

The blasted demon that fell with her was missing.